15-member Indian team announced for Asia Cup 2024, not Hardik but this 36-year-old player became the captain

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|07-07-2024

Team India: Team India has recently won the title of T20 World Cup 2024. After winning the title of T20 World Cup, the Indian team is on a tour of Zimbabwe under the captaincy of Shubman Gill. In the first T20 match on the Zimbabwe tour, the Indian team had to face defeat by 13 runs.

On the other hand, BCCI has announced the squad for the mega tournament like Asia Cup 2024. For your information, let us tell you that the responsibility of captaincy in the Team India squad selected for Asia Cup 2024 has been given to this 36-year-old player instead of veteran all-rounder Hardik Pandya.

Harmanpreet Kaur has got the captaincy of Team India, not Hardik

Team India

While the Indian men's team is playing a T20 series on the Zimbabwe tour, on the other hand, the Indian women's team is currently playing a series of 3 T20 matches against South Africa. Meanwhile, the BCCI has announced the team squad for the Women's Asia Cup 2024 starting from July 19. The responsibility of captaining Team India for the Women's Asia Cup has been given to 36-year-old female cricketer Harmanpreet Kaur.

Team India is the defending champion of Asia Cup

The last edition of the Women's Asia Cup was held in Bangladesh in the year 2022. In the last edition, Team India won a mega event like the Asia Cup by defeating Sri Lanka by 8 wickets under the captaincy of Harmanpreet Kaur. In such a situation, Team India would like to win the title of Asia Cup 2022 once again under the captaincy of Harmanpreet Kaur.

For your information, let us tell you that this year's edition of Asia Cup is going to be held in Sri Lanka from 19 July to 28 July. Team India will play its first match in Asia Cup 2024 against Pakistan (IND W VS PAK W) on 19 July at the Dambulla ground.

Team India selected for Asia Cup 2024

Harmanpreet Kaur (Captain), Smriti Mandhana (Vice-Captain), Shafali Verma, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh (Wicketkeeper), Uma Chhetri (Wicketkeeper), Pooja Vastrakar, Arundhati Reddy, Renuka Singh Thakur, Dayalan Hemalatha, Asha Shobhana, Radha Yadav, Shreyanka Patil, Sajna Sajeevan

Traveling Reserves: Shweta Sahrawat, Sayaka Ishaq, Tanuja Kanwar, Meghna Singh

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